Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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wardrobe

UK /ˈwɔːdɹəʊb/ · US /ˈwɔɹdɹoʊb/ noun, verb

Forms wardrobes wardrobing wardrobed

  1. noun (obsolete) A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom.
  2. noun (figuratively) A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
  3. noun (figuratively) The building housing such a department.
  4. noun (obsolete) Any closet used for storing anything.
  5. noun A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
  6. noun (figuratively) The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
  7. noun A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
  8. noun A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.
  9. verb (intransitive) To act as a wardrobe department; to provide clothing or sets of clothes.
  10. verb To order clothing online and return it for a refund after having worn it.
  11. verb To order multiple sizes of the same clothing online and return all but the one that fits best.

Synonyms

armoir dresser cupboard closet press shrank bedroom costume department bathroom

Etymology

From Middle English warderobe, from Old Northern French warderoube, wardereube, northern variants of Old French garderobe, from garder (“to keep safe”) + robe. Subsequently influenced by various senses of garderobe as they developed in French. Doublet of garderobe. By surface analysis, ward + robe.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.
  2. noun Wearing apparel, in general; articles of dress or personal decoration.

Etymology [OE. warderobe, OF. warderobe, F. garderobe; of German origin. See Ward, v. t., and Robe.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “wardrobe”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “wardrobe” (best matches first).